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Service Robots and Their Impact on Service Interactions: A Forward-Looking Perspective

Guest article by Jochen Wirtz, Werner Kunz, Stefanie Paluch, and Valentina Pitardi. The Rise of Service Robots As technology continues to advance, service robots are increasingly becoming integral to the...

Organizational frontlines in the age of robots: Let’s focus on the people!

Guest article by Jenny van Dorn. These are exciting times for people following the developments in the field of robotics. We are flooded with new robots coming out (for instance,...

PhD position: service innovation & customer experience (Linköping University, Sweden)

The Marketing Group, Division of Business Administration, Department of Management & Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden PhD Position Application deadline: 28 October 2024 Are you interested in how consumers perceive and evaluate...

CCIS-CE 2024

Co-creation in Service and Customer Engagement Symposium 2024 28-30th November 2024 Iron Creek Bay, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia  EOI Deadline: 30th September 2024 Registration Deadline: 3rd October 2024  Co-chairs– Dr. Gauri Laud,...

CFP JIM: Intelligent Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Marketing

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of International Marketing “Intelligent Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Marketing” Guest Co-Editors: Bonfrer A, Laszlo Sajtos L, Wirtz J &...

CFP JMM: Customer Experiences

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Journal of Marketing Management. “Designing for Customer Experiences that Matter” Guest co-editors: Dampérat M, Jeannot F & Jongmans E. Deadline: 7 April...

CFP JSM: Making Service Work Decent Work

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Services Marketing. “Making Service Work Decent Work: Marketing Perspectives to Uplift Human Well-Being and Service Excellence” Co-Guest editors: Colurcio...

CFP JSM: Services in a Rapidly Changing World

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Services Marketing. “Services in a Rapidly Changing World” Co-Guest editors: Holmqvist J, Kabadayi S & Winfrey D Deadline: 17...

CfP JSTP: Sustainable Services

Call for paper for a Special Issue of the Journal of Service Theory and Practice. Moving Towards Sustainable Services in the Age of Digital Transformation Guest editors: Laud G, Ro...

It’s time for a critical edge to service research

Guest article by Ross Gordon, Josina Vink, Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, Gauri Laud, & Nadia Zainuddin. In a critical state Service research has undergone significant shifts in its underlying research paradigm over...

Eureka! – The Birth of a Research Idea

Guest article by Andrew S. Gallan. Thank you to Werner for starting this blog series on sharing stories of how research projects originated. This is an important issue for us...

Impressions from IRSSM 12 in India

Guest article by Yupal Shukla From August 6th to 9th, 2024, the 12th International Research Symposium in Service Management (IRSSM-12) was jointly hosted by Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration...